"are we centralizing or decentralizing?"
"how central are the biggest relays? how many relays would need to be taken down/censored for X% of nostr hsers using clients that dont shopoet the outbox-model?"
"what % of events with e-tags leave relay hints?"
important questions we don't have tools to answer yet
maybe someone will build them and get their work funded with grants
Except nostr grants are reserved to a tiny group of individuals. You have to first be a successful socialengineer.
I think most such adversarial questions will be answered in an spontaneous / organic manner rather than funded simulations.
You are completely wrong on the first paragraph. Opensats has funded a lot of anons that have work to point to. All applications are evaluated solely on merit.
And correct on the second one. People shouldn’t apply to build it; they should build it and apply.
Really? Try generate a new npub/telegram/github for your next project and apply for a grant. Share the results later.
- A king must walk in the shoes of his people, if he wishes to stay royalty.
I tried, but GitHub has shadowbanned me because I wasn't using a gmail address (or some other reason I don't know). Then I tried again and it shadowbanned me again.
So let me ask: who is the person you have in mind who has done valuable work and applied for a grant that was rejected?
Well ofc if you apply with an account with zero history of doing anything that pubkey should not get a grant! Someone applying for a grant should show, in some way, some capability, self-motivation, resourcefulness, integrity, etc, etc; otherwise the opensats funds would fly away to a a few hundred spam pubkeys in a split second…
I am pretty sure we have also rejected a bunch of applications from clearly talented people who had a bunch of Nostr "clout" -- only because we didn't think the project/applications were a good match.
This. I’m pretty sure if you’d look at the distribution of “follower count” (as a crappy proxy for clout) of grantees it would show this being the case.
the second word of your first question contains its answer
That would be nice, but i'm losing faith brother.
I'm still working on packaging a relay for Fedora. But I have long experience with DNS. There need to be relays hosted on non-icann TLDs. My blue sky vision is for many nostriches to run recursive DNS resolvers with custom root zone featuring many of these private TLDs. This is something private companies and extended families should do, but probably incomprehensible to normies at present.
A more immediate step is to apply for a NOSTR TLD at opennic.org. Must have a constitution setting out the rules to register a domain and tier 1 servers meeting their QA requirements. The application is voted on by existing TLDs. It is easy for normies to use opennic for their DNS. https://www.opennic.org/
Namecoin is an excellent way to register TLDs in a globally consistent namespace, and is in excellent harmony with the Bitcoin vibe. Not very accessible to normies (but they are working on it). https://www.namecoin.org/
Correct me if I’m wrong: but is every piece of hosted media (memes, videos, images and audio) centralized on the server that it’s hosted on? The relays just pass the “http” address to where it is hosted, but that domain/host can always be taken down, right?
If a significant amount of social media is not text, that may need to be an area of focus.
Any thoughts there?
Lots of thoughts there and NIP-94 is a good answer to this. Media needn’t be on relays to be censorship-resistant
